Thursday, December 23, 2010

DISSATISFACTION

Tune & Lyrics for the Rolling Stones hit,"I CAN'T GET NO SATISFACTION."

I can't get no satisfaction,I can't get no satisfaction.'Cause I try and I try and I try and I try.I can't get no, I can't get no ...

When I'm drivin' in my carAnd a man comes on the radio,He's tellin' me more and moreAbout some useless informationSupposed to fire my imagination.I can't get no, oh no no no.Hey hey hey, that's what I say.

I can't get no satisfaction,I can't get no satisfaction.'Cause I try and I try and I try and I try.I can't get no, I can't get no.

I can't get no satisfaction,I can't get no satisfaction.No dope , no hope,No belief, no relief,Just perspiration,And tribulation.Hey hey hey, that's what I say.

Just guys and gals and their palsSaying no, no dough, no go,No solution just revolution.Get out the rats the DemocratsBecome fan, a Repuli-canYou try and try, they lie and lie.You can't get no plan of action

HOW I GOT HERE

I started out as a modern dancer, contemporary, but balletic. I didn't want to be a swan, or a barefoot dancer. I wanted to dance to the music that thrilled me as a child, and made me want to be a dancer.

I began writing in the truck my first husband, Mark Ryder and I bought, in order to carry our set, props, and costumes for a long one-night-stands tour -- eighty-eighty performances in eighty-eight cities.

We were performing "Romeo and Juliet" nightly, but our marriage was breaking up. Every day while our stage manager drove us two-hundred miles or so to the next booking, I'd type a detailed description of last night -- what we did well, what we argued about, and a travelogue about the town, and comments from the people at the nightly party.

Recovering from the trip and the divorce, I sent my "car book" to a friend who said -- "Em, it's great,but ..." And that became rewrites, and another book. Then, my marriage to actor John Cullum, and then a play that got produced, and another book, big hopes because a famous agent loved it.The title and concept changed five times -- now it's been published, finally, as "Somebody, Woman of the Century." You can buy it, or read about it and my other five novels on Emily Frankel.com